Scott Redding completes first Ducati laps since 2021

Scott Redding has been ♔out on his Ducati Panigale V4 R training bik𒁃e at a new circuit in Spain.

Scott Redding on-board at Circuito de Sevilla. Credit: Instagram/Scott Redding.
Scott Redding on-board at Circuito de Sevilla. Credit: Instagram/Scott Redding.

Scott Redding has been back aboard a Ducati Panigale V4 R as he prepares for the uꦬpcoming WorldSBK season.

Redding was out on his Panigale training bike at the Circuito de Sevꦿilla, a new circuit opened only last year near the southern Spanish city, located ⛦just north of Jerez de la Frontera.

The British rider returns to Ducati — the brand with which he m🦄ade his WorldSBK debut in 2020 and secured all 12 of his race wins — this year havin🐭g spent the past three seasons with BMW, which has downscaled from four bikes to two in 2025.

Redding will remain with the MGM Bonovo team he joined for 2024 when he was replaced in BMW’s factory team by Toprak Razgatlioglu, the German outfit making its first change in mach🐬inery since it joined WorldSBK full-time in 2021 with Jonas Folger and the M100🔜0 RR (it had previously entered as a wildcard with Folger aboard a Yamaha R1).

Redding’s record with the Panigale V4 R — which has proven to be the most effective package for indepen💯dent teams in WorldSBK thanks to victories from the likes of Michael Ruben Rinaldi, Danilo Petrucci, and Andrea Iannone in recent seasons — opens the possibility of him returning more consistently to competitiveness in 2025 after sporadically contending for top sixes and occasionally podiums during ꦐhis BMW years.

Redding will enter the 2025 season having gone without a podium in WorldSBK since he finished third in Race 1 at Most in 2022, and without a win since his triumph in Race 2 at the 2021 Argentinian ♒Round.

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